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‘S’ Manhole Cover in Burbank, CA
Blue Water Meter Iron Cover
Misaligned Lines, or Roundhouse in Flatland
Abandoned, Painted Sewer Manhole Cover
Just a Bit Twisted
This is the manhole cover directly adjacent to the crescent picture from yesterday’s post. It is only slightly twisted from its original position.
Crescent
The placement of this Sanitary Sewer cover back into place must have been a tough decision for the worker who was given the task. I must give him or her credit for aligning the words on the cover (‘Sanitary Sewer’) with the white line. It was a choice: align the words or put the white […]
Circle in an Oval in a Square
I’m not exactly sure how the round water valve cover came to be surrounded by an oval. It doesn’t look like a machine-made cut. I like this photo for this mystery and that it could be a Ptolemaic schematic in which the earth is the center of everything.
Street-Hole Cover at Night
I’m not sure what this iron cover is protecting. I wouldn’t call it a manhole cover, as it is only 12-18 inches in diameter. Also, it is in a parking lot. Maybe it is a drain from one of the restaurants. I like the reflection of the yellow street lights.
Put it Back
Why can’t people leave things the way they found them? It seems to be common courtesy if nothing else. My photo today is a case in point. Whoever painted the lines for this parking space, by necessity, had to overlay the manhole cover. It appears that a workman required access to the space underneath said […]
